A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
A chisel-ended example is illustrated in fig. 19, and four views of another 
beautiful example of the same class in fig. 20. In fig. 21 is represented 
a well-made acutely pointed implement, a rare form in south Bedfordshire, 
and in fig. 22 is asketch of a very rough specimen from the same deposits 
with the highly finished examples, showing that rudeness alone is no 
criterion of age. ‘This specimen was probably made by a beginner, or in 
some sudden emergency. Tools of this class do not indicate stages of 
evolution from lower to higher forms ; they are simply failures, make-shifts, 
attempts on intractable flints, or accidental abortions, made by the men 
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